James Allen Hall

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2,199 appearances 11 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 10 Aug

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Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast · Breaking Form Selects: Larry Levis (A Summer Poetry Salon) · 20 Jul 2026 podcast

or you can read it in um the last section collected yeah it is reordered in the collected um so i'm gonna read a poem from the early part of of levis's career this is in the early poems um in the collected this is called unfinished poem

Here are all the shadows that have fallen on no one in particular.

Here's the water coming in under the pier.

Here is the untouchable woman who sticks out her tongue.

Here is the axe handle driven into the pig's snout.

Here are the separated legs of an ant pulled off one by one out of boredom, and the stack of dried fish left as an offering to the bulldozer ticking in sunlight.

Here is the fist of the president falling onto what he imagines is a table full of multicolored lizards.

And here is a multicolored lizard quickly fading into grass, leaving his strange tattoo in the colors of your eyes.

I walk the cut road for miles where the ground is freezing in the name of the father and the ghost of the cracked stout and the dull sons wielding ax handles in the slaughterhouse day of our Lord ruled by bellies ruled by longing of toys left under houses for years left as offerings, dust puzzles for the woman turned to a doorstep.

over which you carried all the dead at the moment of your birth.

Yeah, this gigantic collected, and we both had that one bookmarked.

That's really funny.

Oh, I have another little one bookmarked, but it's so tiny.

Do you want to read that one?

Okay, good.

Yeah, that's true too.

Yeah.

There's a poem I love in this book called Sensationalism, but I'm not going to read that one.

We also talked just sort of between things after we read Linda Hall, how...

linda hall and larry levis sustain a longer poem and how it's it's it's a high wire act you know it's really hard to do and i've been reading both of them because i've been writing these longer poems i'm trying to figure out sometimes i feel like the center falls away in levis a little bit mm-hmm

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